Purujosa section 6. 2 km south of Purujosa village, Moncayo Natural Park (Cambrian of Spain)

Where: Aragon, Spain (41.7° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° S, 110.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pardailhania hispida trilobite zone, Murero Formation, Menevian (504.5 - 499.5 Ma)

• middle Caesaraugustan, Cambrian Series 3, Stage 5. Drumian. Zamora & Smith (2011) refine this to Pardailhania multispinosa zone from Badulesia granieri–Pairdailhania multispinosa zones.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green shale and carbonate

• green shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: S. Zamora, I. A. Rahman, and A. B. Smith. 2013. The ontogeny of Cinctans (stem-group Echinodermata) as revealed by a new genus, Graciacystis, from the middle Cambrian of Spain. Palaeontology 56(Part 2):399-410 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196974: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

Cincta
  - Gyrocystidae
Graciacystis ambigua Zamora et al. 2013
Stylophora
 Cornuta - Ceratocystidae
Ctenocystoidea
 Ctenocystoida -
Courtessolea sp. Domínguez-Alonso 1999
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Pardailhania hispida Thoral 1935 trilobite